Flooding in Melbourne

Friday night we had a little storm being pushed over Melbourne by cyclone Yasi, delivering heavy rain, flooding, thunder & lighting. This is how it looked when the sky opened:


The water came down so quick that we ended up with a pool of water sitting on top of our terrace.


The rain continued to fall for most of the night, and I was woken up at 5 AM from the rain just bucketing down again. When there was enough day light, I ventured outside to see how it all looked. Here is our street - this is the house across the road.


This is at the end of our street 50M away - the streets covered in water.


The lake at the end of our street - this time it went over the edge, as you can see here bench and walk-way covered in water.

Luckily, no damage to our house :-) ... or so we thought until I had to leave for work. Opening the garage, water started running out... so as it turned out, water had come from the garden through the garage back door into the garage, and because the garage door was closed, about 5 cm of water was just covering the garage floor. Luckily, no visible damage to anything, but Kasper all of a sudden got a little extra job getting all the water out of the garage.

Compared to the rest of Melbourne, I think we have been quite lucky with all the flooding we have seen on the news.

It seems the wet weather is over for now. The weather looks to be nice and sunny for the next week or so, so we are happy about that!